Kathryn C. Baer, PhD
Research Ecologist
kathryn.baer@usda.gov
Treesearch Publications
- Kathryn C. Baer. 2025. Local berry plant abundance but not regional occupancy may decline under climate change: predicting future conditions and promoting resilience in Southeast Alaskan forests
- Suzanne M. Owen, Kathryn C. Baer, Nikhilesh Desai, Robert Hoehn, Christina Herrick, Katie Jennings, Alexander R. Young, Sjana Schanning. 2025. Portland, Oregon's urban forest, 2018
- Kathryn C. Baer, David J. Nowak, Thomas Brandeis, Kerry Dooley, Kurt Hellman, Jason Henning, Christina Herrick, Robert Hoehn, Katie Jennings, Lucie Lepine, Tonya Lister, Mark Majewsky, Suzanne M. Owen, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Sjana Schanning, Rebekah J. Zehnder. 2024. San Diego’s urban forest, 2017
- Matthew M. Kling, Kathryn C. Baer, David D. Ackerly. 2024. A tree's view of the terrain: downscaling bioclimate variables to high resolution using a novel multi‐level species distribution model
- Kyle C. Rosenblad, Kathryn C. Baer, David D. Ackerly. 2023. Climate change, tree demography, and thermophilization in western US forests
- Sean MP. Cahoon, Kathryn C. Baer, Kate Legner, Loretta Winton, Garret Dubois, Will Putman, Patrick Sullivan, Kate C. Marcille, Hans Andersen, Jacob L. Strunk, Richard Smith, John M. Chase, Glenn Christensen, Jane Terzibashian, Andrew Gray. 2022. Forest resources of the Tanana unit, Alaska: 2018
- Kathryn C. Baer, Andrew Gray. 2022. Biotic predictors improve species distribution models for invasive plants in Western U.S. Forests at high but not low spatial resolutions
Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications
- Baer, K.C.; Maron, J.L. 2020. Ecological niche models display nonlinear relationships with abundance and demographic performance across the latitudinal distribution of Astragalus utahensis (Fabaceae). Ecology and Evolution 10(15): 8251-8264. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6532
- Baer, K.C.; Maron, J.L. 2019. Declining demographic performance and dispersal limitation influence the geographic distribution of the perennial forb Astragalus utahensis (Fabaceae). Journal of Ecology 107(3): 1250-1262. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13086
- Baer, K.C.; Maron, J.L. 2018. Pre‐dispersal seed predation and pollen limitation constrain population growth across the geographic distribution of Astragalus utahensis. Journal of Ecology 106(4): 1646-1659. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12932
- Maron, J.L.; Baer, K.C.; Angert, A.L. 2014. Disentangling the drivers of context-dependent plant-animal interactions. Journal of Ecology 102(6): 1485-1496. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12305
- Gray, A.N.; Baer, K.C.; Witt, C. 2021. Invasive Plants. In Barrett, T.M.; Robertson, G.C. (Eds.) Disturbance and sustainability in forests of the Western United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-992. Portland, OR: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
- Baer, K.C., S.M.P. Cahoon, and T.M. Barrett. 2021. Disturbance in the boreal forests of Alaska. Prevalence of Insect and Pathogen Damages in Forests of the Tanana Sub-Unit of Interior Alaska. In Barrett, T.M. (Ed.). Disturbance and Sustainability in Forests of the Western United States. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-992. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 231 p.
- Baer, K.C. et al. 2024. Additional sampling and estimation details for Urban Forest Inventory and Analysis reports, version 1. Procedures Paper. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 14 p.
- Nelson, M.D., Elliott, L.H., Pugh, S.A., Baer, K.C., Gray, A.N., Landisch, P.A. 2024. Estimating vegetation percent cover by vertical layer and growth habit. In Crocker, S (Ed.). 2024. Proceedings of the 2022 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA 2022) science stakeholder meeting: grow. adapt. regenerate—monitoring and responding to global change to promote resilient and productive forests. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-225. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 102 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-225.
- Owen, S.M., Baer, K.C., Desai, N., Hoehn, R.E., Herrick, C., Jennings, K., Young, A. In Press. Portland, Oregon’s Urban Forest, 2018. Resource Bulletin NRS-xxx. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station.
- Nawrocki, T.W.; Carlson, M.L.; Wells, A.F.; Macander, M.J.; Trammell, E.J.; Witmer, F.D.W.; Roland, C.A.; Baer, K.C. and Swanson, D.K. 2020. Continuous Foliar Cover of Plant Species and Aggregates in North American Beringia [map]. Alaska Center for Conservation Science, Anchorage, AK. Available at https://accscatalog.uaa.alaska.edu/node/299/revisions/1728/view.
- University of Montana, Ph.D. Organismal Biology, Ecology & Evolution, Population, Distribution & Pollination Ecology, 2017
- University of Alaska Fairbanks, B.S. Biological Sciences, Biology, 2007
- University of Alaska Fairbanks, B.A. Foreign Languages, Spanish, 2007
Last updated March 10, 2026